Pirate Bay makes U.S. Congressional caucus piracy watch list

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The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus has created what it calls its 2010 International Piracy Watch List. The list contains countries that the caucus believe have “serious problems” when it comes to copyright piracy. This includes the countries of China, Russia, Spain and Mexico, but the caucus didn’t stop there.

In addition to naming countries, the caucus also called out websites where gross copyright infringement is occurring. The list of “priority sites”, as termed by the caucus, include China’s Baidu, Canada’s IsoHunt, Ukraine’s mp3fiesta, Germany’s RapidShare, Luxembourg’s RMX4U.com and Sweden’s The Pirate Bay. By highlighting the issues surrounding piracy the caucus hopes to encourage policymakers to address the growing problem.

One of the websites listed, The Pirate Bay, has received a lot of attention in the news as of late as a result of its shut down after an injunction by a German court. As reported this week, The Pirate Bay rose from the dead thanks to a new host from an unlikely source. The website is now hosted by a Swedish political party called the Pirate Party which has two members in the European Parliament.